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About
Patrick
Patrick D.
Thornton, CNM, MSN
Patrick Thornton began his career
in the helping professions in the 1970's working in a
drug crisis center, a halfway house for alcoholics,
shelter for teen runaways, and battered women's shelter.
He became interested in midwifery with the births of his
own two daughters in the 1980's. Both were born at home
with midwives in attendance.
 Patrick
with one of his patients
Patrick graduated from The University of Akron in 1988
cum laude with a B.S. in nursing. He then worked
in several hospitals as a labor and delivery nurse.
Convinced of the need for alternatives to the medical
approach to pregnancy and birth, Patrick enrolled in the
Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing in 1992.
"I spent a long time debating whether the world
needed more men delivering babies, but kept seeing women OB/GYNs handling birth about the same as men. I realized
it's the disease orientation of medical training that
results in treating birth as an illness."
Patrick graduated from Frontier in 1994 after completing
a preceptorship at BirthPlace in Pittsburgh. He worked in
both a hospital and a birth center in West Virginia
before joining the Pittsburgh practice of Dr. Christine Tyndall in
1999. He received his Master of Science in Nursing from
Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland that same
year, as well as opening the only midwife owned practice in the
Pittsburgh Pennsylvania region.
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